Details

Medium:

Acrylic on canvas & photographs & newspaper cuttings & barbed wire

Dimensions:

4 panels each 137.2 x 213.4 cm

Art Fund grant:

£15,000 ( Total: £25,000)

Acquired in:

2004

Vendor:

Conrad Atkinson

The first panel shows photos of the 13 people killed on Bloody Sunday and a blood-stained banner that was carried on the day of the march. The second panel shows a cartoon of a British soldier copied from graffiti on a wall in Belfast. The third panel shows photographs of street scenes in Belfast depicting mostly pro-loyalist symbols. The fourth panel is seperated from the others by a line of barbed wire, and show photographs of a man alledgedly beaten up by police for being an IRA suspect, and a quote by Shelley.